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Boulder County commissioners won't take oral testimony at oil/gas public hearing

Written comments are welcome in advance of meeting

By John FryarLongmont Times-Call

Posted:
06/13/2013 01:22:46 PM MDT

Updated:
06/13/2013 01:23:20 PM MDT

BOULDER -- While Boulder County commissioners have scheduled what they're calling a public hearing on a possible extension of the county's current moratorium on accepting applications on new oil and gas development, people won't actually be allowed to speak at that Tuesday afternoon meeting.

Instead, people can submit written comments about the moratorium -- and whether it should be continued beyond its current June 24 expiration date -- as long as they get those comments into county officials' hands or computers by Tuesday morning.

People have until 8 a.m. Tuesday to submit written comments on the issue of a moratorium extension. Those comments can be: delivered in person to the commissioner's office on the third floor of the Courthouse at 1325 Pearl St., Boulder; mailed to Boulder County Commissioners' Office, P.O. Box 471, Boulder CO 80306; or emailed to oilgascomment@bouldercounty.org.

The commissioners are to consider those written comments -- as well as letters and emails they've earlier gotten, and remarks made during hours of speakers' oral remarks during previous public hearings -- during the county board's Tuesday afternoon meeting.

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Michelle Krezek, the commissioners' deputy, said Tuesday's afternoon meeting is considered under state law to be a public hearing because people do have an opportunity to put their comments in writing, if not to state them out loud at the meeting itself.

Next week's meeting on the moratorium and other oil and gas issues -- a meeting that will be open to the public, although no additional oral testimony is to be taken -- is scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. in the Board of County Commissioners' third-floor hearing room of the Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder.

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